What I’m Blogging

It’s meme day! A little exercise to plant some thoughts in your head and discuss a little about yourself that you otherwise wouldn’t, or maybe you would, because some people are just like that. This is the Seven Things challenge, found on Tammi’s Blog Drawing on Words. If you read it, consider yourself tagged.

Seven Things I Can Do:
1. Juggle
2. Procrastinate
3. Write
4. Make people laugh
5. Embrace chaos
6. Bring home the bacon
7. Fry it up in a pan

Seven Things I Can’t Do
1. Time record on a VCR
2. Suffer fools gladly
3. Leave work at the office
4. Enjoy work
5. Care about politics
6. Shop at fabric stores
7. Leave stones unturned

Seven Things I Say Most Often
1. “and your point is?”
2. “Arrrrr Jim lad”
3. “no one of consequence”
4. “inconceivable!”
5. “hmmmmm who now, your Jedi master is? hmmmmm”
6. “Once more into the breech”
7. “Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. ”

Seven Things That Attracts Me to Others
1. Honesty
2. Humour
3. Intelligence
4. Compassion
5. Friendliness
6. Fate
7. Green eyes

Seven Things To Do Before I Die
1. Write a book
2. Dance at my daughter’s wedding
3. Hold my grandchild
4. Find something I’m happy doing
5. Love my wife even more
6. Read a book by my son
7. Live in peace

Cross of St. Andrew

Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, and St. Andrew’s Day is celebrated by Scots around the world on the 30th November. The flag above is the Cross of St. Andrew, and this is widely displayed as a symbol of national identity.

It’s Good to be Scottish

Hobbit

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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So what are you going to be on Halloween. According to this innocuous blog quiz, I should be out hunting for Dorthy and her little dog. Alright, I’m getting on with it… I’m flying, and I’m not your pretty OK?

Your Halloween Costume Should Be

A Flying Monkey

What Should You Be For Halloween?

My blog is worth $7,248.23.
How much is your blog worth?

There are those who claim that blogging is just a waste of time , effort and of no value. “Take my wife…” as Henny Youngman used to say. Well over at Business Opportunities Weblog an effort has been made to quantify just how much filthy lucre money a blog is worth. They should know, they are in the making money from a blog kind of space. Now don’t get me wrong, I like filthy lucre money as much as the next guy. Heck, I even bought a lottery ticket in the Ontario 649 mad dash for forty million of the little darlings [incidentally I did not win]. For the most part I like to think of blogging for blogging sake. Sure I put up links for Google Ads and I have links to Amazon for books and stuff, but to date I think I’ve made a grand total of $10 in the last 3 years. Don’t worry, I won’t be spending it all in one place.

Nope blogging for me is definitely not a exercise in money making. It’s more of an exercise in hearing myself type. But now I have an arbitrary number of value to assign to what I’m doing.

“I’ll be up to bed soon honey, I’m just increasing my virtual net blog worth….”

Clutter grows. It grows every time we just leave something to be taken care of later. Clutter can be both physical and virtual. The former is easier to clean up because you can see it. The latter is much more difficult because after two or three years of blogging and joining discussion lists you’d be surprised at how much cyber clutter you accumulate.

…perhaps this is how monotheism got it’s start…

Today is cleaning day. I’m opening up the lid on my cyber persona and am sweeping out the cobwebs. Deleting mail accounts here, changing discussion groups there. My goal? To simplify all the things I have had to keep track of. Perhaps this is how monotheism got it’s start. Too many darned gods to keep track of. Take that Yahoo! You too MSN! No longer will I worship at the multiple alters of your Internet services. For now I’ll stay with the Google until I feel the urge to be my own domain. “I am the Lord your Google and thou shalt have no other ISP before me.”

You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (18% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

Looks like I’m going to be on a list somewhere…

When you’re sick, when your feeling really down, and grumpy, you tend (at least I do) to do obsessive things. Obsessive things like checking your blog stats over and over, checking for new e-mail every 5 minutes, but today I hit a new level. Today I validated my HTML to the W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. Go ahead check for yourselves. It’s all there.

I’m desperately in need of an intervention. I need help and lots of it.

Tomorrow is “Talk Like a Pirate Day”… Yes, that’s what I said. For more information make sure you drop by the official web site. In order to get yourselves ready for this event, You will need to get a Pirate name. The link below can help.